Hi Crime Junkies! Welcome back to another episode. I'm Ashley Flowers and I'm

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You know I'm obsessed with missing person cases and especially the ones

where we're pretty sure the person just didn't walk off on their own because I

just can't get it through my head how another person could just make a human

disappear off the face of the earth and leave no clues behind. And today is one

of those stories. I also really want to cover this case because I can't find

another podcast that has so I think it's important that someone keep talking

about missing person Bethany Decker. Bethany is a young woman from Virginia. She was a

star student at her high school and went on to study at George Mason University.

She's one of those people I'm always baffled by who can do incredible in school

without actually having to try super hard. During her freshman year there she

meets a young man named Emil Decker. He's in the ROTC program at their school

and they ended dating for three years. They're young, they're in love, so

Emil asked Bethany to marry him and shortly after they get engaged she gets

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